Leona – The Die is Cast
This best-selling Scandinavian thriller follows its troubled heroine as she investigates a high-profile robbery for Stockholm’s Violent Crimes Division. LEONA is an international success, sold in 13 countries.
Naked and bloody, a seven-year-old girl walks into a bank in central Stockholm in broad daylight and comes out with millions. Leona Lindberg of Stockholm’s Violent Crimes Division seems the perfect person to take the case – she has a long, distinguished history in the police force. But Leona is grappling with deep issues of her own – a gambling addiction, a strained marriage – that could jeopardize the investigation. As she struggles to keep the volatile pieces of her life under control, the line between right and wrong becomes increasingly unclear and even irrelevant.
The Die is Cast is a hard-boiled crime novel, filled with unexpected twists and turns, featuring an unusual heroine. Leona makes for gripping reading while challenging feminine norms and posing questions about what lies behind the choices we make.
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Year of publication
2014
Original title
Leona – Tärningen är kastad
Page count
364
Original publisher
Wahlström & Widstrand
Original language of publication
Swedish
Reviews
New York Journal of Books
“In what has to be one of the most original and suspenseful openings in a psychological crime thriller, Swedish bestselling author, Jenny Rogneby’s debut novel, Leona: The Die Is Cast, turns all thrillers on their heads, and rips to shreds all previously written rules on the genre…From the evocative beginning, to the shocking denouement, Leona: The Die is Cast, is an extraordinary debut novel filled with unique characters and heart-pumping situations we never see coming. Jenny Rogneby is an exciting and fresh new voice, bringing all her years of experience as a criminal investigator into the pages, giving them the voice of authenticity other crime thrillers lack. Totally riveting. Roll on the sequel.”
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